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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
    ― Leonardo Da Vinci

  • #2
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous

  • #3
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson

  • #4
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

  • #5
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”
    ― Thomas Jefferson

  • #6
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville

  • #7
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Billy Joel
    “I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
    I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
    I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
    And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.”
    ― Billy Joel

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein

  • #14
    “Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version



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